This building at "Harefield"
near St Marys was the cottage built by
Dr Alexander Thomson in the
early 1830s.
It is believed to be the oldest building still standing in the Fingal
valley

Cullenswood Rail Station
1960

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TOWNS OF THE FINGAL VALLEY

AvocaAvoca is the first township as you enter
the Fingal Valley from the West. The area was settled in the 1820s,
but the township was not established until a Police Barracks was built
in the early 1830s. Its main historical attraction is St Thomas Anglican
Church, consecrated in 1842(More Info>>>)

CornwallCornwall was so named when six miners were brought
out from Cornwall in England to open up the coal mines in readiness
for the Fingal Railway to be completed in 1886(More Info>>>)

CullenswoodCullenswood developed as a village and service
centre for the Break O' Day Plains after Robert Vincent Legge built
his church in 1847(More Info>>>)

FingalThe township of Fingal come about after a Convict
Station was established in 1827. The town has a number of convict built
freestone buildings including the school, which was built in 1884 and
was the first State School in the Fingal Valley. Fingal was also the
Headquarters for the first Municipal Council to the area, which was
formed in 1863(More Info>>>)

MathinnaGold was discovered in Mathinna
in 1852 and in the 1890s, with the Golden Gate Mine emploring some 300
men per shift, it was the third largest town in Tasmania after Hobart
and Launceston(More info>>>)

St Marys
St Marys is the main service centre for the eastern end of the Fingal Valley.
It has a long history dating back to 1867 and whilst industries such as dairy, timber and coal that once saw the town thrive have slowed in recent years, but the town still has a strong community with many retirees and alterative life stile folks moving in for a quieter way of life.(More Info>>>)

St
Marys 1903Local Historian, the Late David Clement, has written a
wonderful comprehensive insight into life in St Marys as the town and its people entered the Twentieth Century.(More Info>>>)